Judges 17:5
3 And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.
4 Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.
And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
6 In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
7 And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some household idols, and ordained one of his sons as his priest.
- KJV
- And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
- WEB
- The man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
- ASV
- And the man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
- DARBY
- And the man Micah had a house of gods, and made an ephod and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
- BLB
- And the man Micah had a shrine of gods, and he made an ephod and teraphim, and he filled the hand of one of his sons, and he was to him for a priest.
- ÅB
- Og mannen Mika hadde et gudshus, og han hadde gjort en livkjortel og husguder og hadde vidd en av sine sønner til prest for seg.
- OTB
- Mika hadde et huskapell, og han laget en efod og noen husguder, og han innviet en av sine sønner til å bli hans prest.
- B1930
- Og mannen Mika hadde et gudshus, og han hadde gjort en livkjortel og husguder og hadde vidd en av sine sønner til prest for sig.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Judges 18:14
Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.
Read in contextGenesis 31:19
And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father’s.
Read in contextGenesis 31:30
And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father’s house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?
Read in contextJudges 8:27
And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.
Read in contextHosea 3:4
For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:
Read in contextJudges 18:24
And he said, Ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and ye are gone away: and what have I more? and what is this that ye say unto me, What aileth thee?
Read in contextHebrews 5:4
And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.
Read in contextExodus 28:15
And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shalt thou make it.
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